Fixing Mistakes When Sweating Copper Pipes

Video Transcript

"Hey good people Don Golden here with Expert Village and we are working on our solder piping and guess what? Uh-oh, I made a mistake. Not really but you know what, we're not dead in the water here because this stuff heats up and comes apart again as easily as you put it together and you can reuse it, you don't have to throw out the whole job. You can ripe this piece off and put it back on. Let's just crank up our torch and I'll show you how to reuse it. Make sure you've got a good pair of pliers. Make sure you wear some good gloves. I don't but I'm used to it. Put on some gloves and some safety glasses. Grip your elbow right here at the top and start to heat it up. It will start moving just like this and you know that is hot. There it goes. Now that is going to firm up very quickly and you can let it cool down and the whole deal. Or you ready to go right back on. Just put it back up here with your pliers, heat it up, set it down and you're done. Now the only thing you might want to do is you could use a little bit of solder in that process so you can pull your solder up here and go back around it once and make sure it is really sealed good. You an always redo this stuff and take it apart."